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邦

home country
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingホウ
Kun readingくに
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 8

Meanings

  1. home countryRtK
  2. japan
  3. country
  1. japanese film
  2. japanese painting

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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bushes · city walls

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1991

Compound words

東邦とうほう
Oriental country; the Orient
邦画ほうが
Japanese film; Japanese painting
邦楽ほうがく
Japanese music (esp. traditional Japanese music)
邦人ほうじん
Japanese national (esp. abroad); fellow countryman
連邦れんぽう
federation (of states); confederation; commonwealth; union
旧邦きゅうほう
old country
同邦どうほう
the same country
邦貨ほうか
Japanese money
邦訳ほうやく
Japanese translation
聯邦れんぽう
federation (of states)
異邦人いほうじん
foreigner
英連邦えいれんぽう
Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth)
在米邦人ざいべいほうじん
Japanese people residing in the United States
在留邦人ざいりゅうほうじん
Japanese residents in another country
連邦参議院れんぽうさんぎいん
Bundesrat (German parliament)
愛知東邦大学あいちとうほうだいがく
Aichi Toho University
連邦準備制度れんぽうじゅんびせいど
(US) Federal Reserve System
ソヴィエト連邦ソビエトれんぽう
Soviet Union
連邦最高裁判事れんぽうさいこうさいはんじ
(Associate) Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ドイツ連邦共和国ドイツれんぽうきょうわこく
Federal Republic of Germany

Additional Examples

彼は１９５０年代にソビエト連邦へ逃亡した。
He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950's.tatoeba
私はソビエト連邦のことはまったく知らない。
I don't know about the USSR at all.tatoeba
巨大な連邦財政赤字がアメリカ経済を長年に渡って苦しめている。
A huge federal budget deficit has been plaguing the American economy for many years.tatoeba
どこで邦貨をドルに変えられるか。
Where can we exchange yen into dollars?tatoeba

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 邦

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